Wireless

The card is a RaLink RT2860. The driver is not in kernel yet, so you need to compile it yourself from AUR. There is 2 packages in AUR: rt2860 and eeert2860. They are the same... Except eeert2860 was outdated on 2009-01-07. So use rt2860.
BUT, in the PKGBUILD, the last line looks like this:

Else you won't be able to remove the module (neither modprobe -r rt2860sta nor modprobe -r rt2860 will work).

Wireless connection has been tested by me (big_gie) and works with netcfg (2.1.2-1), wicd (1.5.6-1) and Networkmanager_0.7(0.7.0-1) with unencrypted and WPA. Note that with my router (Dlink DIR-615) I had to disable completely WPA2 and AES. So I need to use exclusively WPA with TKIP.

ACPI

Be sure to load the kernel module "eeepc_laptop" to get acpi events. The 1000 does not send the same events as the 901.

I (big_gie) created a new acpi package to support the 1000 acpi events: acpi-eeepc-generic. This package was inspired by many others:

If you look up "eee" on AUR, you'll find a dozen or so packages. I inspired myself from them to create a generic one. It only support the 1000 for the moment, but it should only be a matter of copying the file "acpi-eeepc-1000-events.conf" to "acpi-eeepc-901-events.conf" for example to support a new model.

For the events created by the 1000, see the file "acpi-eeepc-1000-events.conf".

Notes

Sleep

Fn+F1 or closing lid should put the 1000 to sleep. It calls "acpi-eeepc-generic-suspend2ram.sh".

Wifi

Pressing Fn+F2 will call "acpi-eeepc-generic-wifi-toggle.sh" which will toggle the wireless card. Be sure to load "rfkill" module for this to work.

Brightness

Note that the brightness codes depends on the actual brightness level. If at the darker, lower level (00000020) and the "brithness up" button is push, the next level event is generated (00000021). If the button is pushed again, again the next level is generated (00000022) until full brightness is reached (0000002f). So basically, the ACPI event generated depends on the actual level.

Kernel

I removed almost everything unneeded for the 1000. The rest has been compiled in, so it boots faster. I saw some speedup compared to the -ARCH stock kernel.

Problems

Compiz

Compiz is running nice with the 1000: it is a great addition in usability because of the small screen. But I do have one problem. If I open to many windows, their content doesn't get drawn. If I look at X's log file, I have plenty of:

__glXDRIbindTexImage: Failed to register texture offset override

This is using kernel 2.6.28, xorg-server 1.5.3-4, mesa 7.2-1, xf86-video-intel 2.5.99.1-1. Any suggestion would be appreciated.